A good, simple survival server, running since 2012, close to vanilla but with the addition of Grief Prevention to allow players to claim land to protect their houses from griefing. PvP is enabled, although PvP isnt the focus of the server - there are plenty of players who play only to build, and do not partake in PvP, along with some who do play to PvP. The spawn area is PvP protected, and the Grief Prevention plugin means youre safe if you build a safe house. New players are also immune to PvP for their first week although they can remove the protection early if they wish.

We have a friendly and helpful community, with a wide mix of ages and nationalities.

The world spawn reachable with /spawn has portals to several sub-spawns to help spread out and find empty land easily, including one red portal to newly-generated 1.13 chunks for all the Aquatic Update goodness. Users can use a bed to set their home location to which they can teleport with the /home command at any time.

We have an IRC channel, the-wild on Quakenet, linked to in-game chat, where some of the community and mod team can be found when theyre not in-game. We run regular build competitions, with the winner receiving excellent in-game prizes. We also have a Discord server, also linked to in-game chat.

Rules:

No begging for items, creative mode, unbans, ops etc
Dont use hacks or glitches to gain an unfair advantage
No advertising other servers
Try not to build too ugly!
Do not build trapped portals
Use common sense
Dont be an arsehole!

Mod team:
We have a friendly and helpful mod team to help keep things running smoothly.
We are not currently looking for more mods but when we do, we tend to invite helpful and respected long-standing members of the community to step up.